Road safety - Built environment indicator

A healthy environment is one where the road is safe – reducing the risk of injury by design, where the speed and street environment both minimise the risk of serious injury. Factors like road speed and geometry affect the safety of the community.

This indicator will support practitioners to understand problems on the network. Based on the outcome of the assessment, practitioners can determine whether intervention and further road safety treatments across the safe system pillars – safer people, vehicles, roads and speed – may be required.

Practitioners can use the AusRAP vehicular risk rating metric to measure the vehicular road safety risk star rating on State roads.

Practitioners can use the crashes per 100 million vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) metric to measure the rate of fatal and serious injury (FSI) crashes occurring relevant to the vehicle kilometres travelled.

Practitioners can use the FSI and casualty crash rates metric to measure the rate of FSI crashes occurring per kilometre per year on the road network.